This week on Beer Sessions Radio Jimmy and Ray spoke to Caitlin Robin from Against the Grain wine bar, Dave Broderick from Blind Tiger, plus Jeff Gorlechen & Craig Frymark of Sixpoint Brewery. The gang recounted about the recent Meatopia event and Mayor Bloomberg's recent proclamation of July as "Good Beer Month". Craig from Sixpoint talked about their new beer, a collaboration with Jimmy and Ray called Sixpoint Signal: a delicious summer pale ale featuring subtle smoked, toasted notes and a sharp, citrusy, hoppy flavor. Tune in for a discussion on beer collaboration, plus an extra-helpful super-secret tip for all home brewers on how to best aerate your pitched liquid yeast using olive oil! This episode was sponsored by Great Brewers.com: a favorite source for beer information and education and one of the internet's most popular beer destinations.

Jimmy & Co celebrating Mayor Bloomberg's Good Beer Month declaration!

Learner has been farming and gardening on Orcas Island for the past 7 years, where he is now homesteading, grazing French Alpine goats for milk, cheese, and meat, growing his own vegetables and seed, processing seaweed and other wildcrafted food and herbs, hunting, and bartering with his surplus. He is the director and founder of Food Masters, an organization working to increase sustainable food production and food security on Orcas Island, and to build community around a culture of local food. They strive to share information about growing, gathering, hunting, preserving, and preparing food, saving seed, and making medicine. Learner believes that by preserving and increasing knowledge about how to feed ourselves, we contribute to the health of our community, our land, and the future generations that will inhabit it. F.E.A.S.T. is a community supported and community-taught sustainability education program for youth also directed by Learner. The program focuses on teaching positive, simple solutions to some of the largest global problems we face. The F.E.A.S.T. program seeks to empower youth with sustainable living skills such as blacksmithing, permaculture design, wild harvesting, organic farming, animal husbandry, bee-keeping, alternative energy, mycology and more.